Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2017

• 1: James Zhan: Trends in Global FDI Flows and Policy Implications


• 2: Brooke Skartvedt Güven: Blended Finance in 2017: Advancing financing for development but not a panacea


• 3: Taylor St. John: Institutional Developments in Investment Law and Policy


• 4: Olabisi Akinkugbe and Sara Seck: 2017 Developments in Home and Host State Policy Responses to Foreign Direct Investment


• 5: Reji K. Joseph: Investment Facilitation Agreement in WTO: Where is it headed?


• 6: Julie Martin, Stephen Kay, and Mark van der Does: Trends and Developments in the Credit and Political Risk Market in 2017


• 7: Lise Sachs, Lise Johnson, Jesse Coleman, and Nathan Lobel: International Investment Agreements 2017: A Review of Trends and New Approaches


• 8: Catharine Titi: Recent Developments in ISDS: Jurisdiction and admissibility - Procedure and Conduct


• 9: Jarrod Hepburn: 2017 Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration


• 10: Markus Krajewski: Human rights in international investment law: Recent trends in arbitration and treaty-making practice


• 11: Carlos Correa: Developments in international investment law in relation to intellectual property in 2017


• 12: Zoe Phillips Williams: Investor-State Arbitration in the Extractive Industries


• 13: Lorenzo Cotula and Thierry Berger: Farmland in international investment law and dispute settlement: Developments in 2017


• 14: Mouhamadou Madana Kane: International Investment Law and Policy: 2017 Developments in Africa


• 15: Diane Desierto: Expanding ISDS, Active National Courts, and Concluding Mega-Regional Treaties: 2017 Developments in International Investment Law in Asia


• 16: Catharine Titi: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union


• 17: Facundo Perez: Recent Trends in Investment Law and Policy in Latin America

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees the three areas of focus for CCSI: investments in extractive industries, investments in land and agriculture, and investment law and policy. She specializes in extractive industries, foreign investment, corporate responsibility, and integrated economic development. She received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, and earned her J.D. and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she was a James Kent Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law.

Lise Johnson is the Investment Law and Policy Head at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI centers on analyzing investment treaties and treatybased investor-state arbitrations, and examining the implications those instruments and cases have for host countries' domestic policies and sustainable development strategies. In addition, she concentrates on key institutional and procedural aspects of the investment law framework, including efforts to increase transparency in and legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement. She has a B.A. from Yale University, J.D. from University of Arizona, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and is admitted to the bar in California

Jesse Coleman is a legal researcher for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI focuses on investment law and policy, natural resources, and the intersection between human rights and sustainable development. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws from Trinity College Dublin, and holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in international law. Her research while at Cambridge focused on the interplay between international human rights law and land-based investment.